The Health Hun Podcast

If you regularly lose yourself in other people’s energy, overthink relationships, obsess, people please or feel disconnected from yourself - this is self-abandonment.
In this episode, we break down how to fix that through self-devotion - becoming deeply connected to your own body, emotions, needs, standards & internal world instead of consumed by everyone else externally.
Most women were conditioned to monitor others instead of themselves. So you learned to fawn, adapt, over-give, suppress your truth, disconnect from your body & abandon yourself to feel safe, loved or chosen.
I share my own journey from disordered eating, body image struggles, anxious attachment & emotional shutdown into embodiment, pleasure, feminine energy & self-responsibility - and why true healing is not just understanding yourself intellectually, but becoming devoted to how you actually feel.
We talk about limerence, controlling strategies, emotional suppression, trauma, resentment, nervous system dysregulation & why your past pain keeps infecting your future reality when it goes unprocessed.
This episode will help you understand why being deeply devoted to yourself is not selfish or arrogant - it’s the thing that stops you losing yourself, betraying yourself & searching for yourself in other people.
Because when you stop abandoning yourself:
you stop obsessing over people who are not right for you
you trust your body instead of controlling everything
you stop needing validation to feel worthy
you experience more pleasure, intimacy, joy & self-expression
and you finally feel safe being fully yourself
Being self-centred is not ego.
It’s self-respect.

Timestamps:
04:13 My shift from disordered eating into embodiment & self-devotion
07:00 Why women are conditioned to fear being ‘self-centred’
16:50 Losing yourself in other people’s energy
13:20 Self-abandonment, people pleasing & anxious attachment
18:30 Limerence, obsession & emotional hyperfixation
20:00 Controlling strategies used to manage emotions
22:00 Self-abandonment, people pleasing & anxious attachment
26:45 Trauma, resentment & suppressed emotions
37:15 How your past pain infects your future reality
39:30 Feminine energy, receiving & self-devotion
42:05 Teaching people how to treat you through your standards
47:12 Becoming fully expressed, sensual & emotionally free

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This episode covers: self-devotion, self-abandonment, anxious attachment style, limerence, people pleasing, feminine energy, embodiment, nervous system regulation, trauma healing, emotional regulation, sensuality, pleasure, self-worth, boundaries, food freedom, body image healing, emotional suppression, intimacy, self-expression

If you say you’re ‘over’ your parents but still get triggered, shut down, over-explain or feel like a reactive child in seconds - this is the parent wound.
In this episode, we break down how you’ve been wired to react from your inner child - where you had no power, no boundaries & had to manage emotions to stay safe - instead of leading from your adult self. 
You’re not ‘too reactive’ or ‘too sensitive’ - your body is still running patterns built in childhood, where you learned to tolerate, adapt, seek approval & hold onto hope that they would change. 
This shows up as feeling responsible for their emotions, reacting instantly then replaying it later, over-explaining to be understood, staying in dynamics longer than you need to & holding onto potential instead of responding to reality. 
This episode will help you understand the pattern, how your ego & inner child are blocking you from leading from your adult self, and what actually needs to shift so you can stop reacting from the past.
Stop waiting for them to change & learn how to reset your relationship with your parents so you can take your power back.

Timestamps:
04:00 Ego insecurity & how it blocks you
06:20 Inner child triggered reactivity
10:21 The heavy grief of breaking generational cycles
12:22 Clearing past emotions, pain & trauma you carry that keep you stuck
14:10 Resetting your perspective of your parents
16:45 Reparenting yourself & your core wounds
20:44 Modeling change in your relationship with your parents
23:07 Communication & setting boundaries to break the cycle
27:00 Taking back your power

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This episode covers: parent wound, emotional triggers, inner child, reparenting, boundaries with parents, generational patterns, emotional regulation, self-leadership, relationship dynamics, nervous system conditioning

If you feel constantly judged, disconnected from your body, stuck in control around food, or intimacy feels tense instead of natural - this is the Mother wound.
In this episode, we break down how women become wired to monitor themselves - shaping their body, emotions & behaviour to avoid criticism, rejection or emotional withdrawal.
You’re not ‘too controlling’ or ‘too sensitive’ - you were conditioned to feel safe through self-surveillance, people-pleasing & managing other people’s emotions.
This shows up as perfectionism with your body, control around food, difficulty receiving love & a constant underlying tension in relationships - where you’re scanning, bracing & adjusting instead of actually feeling safe.
This episode will help you understand the pattern, how it’s impacting your nervous system, body image, relationships & intimacy - and what actually needs to shift to stop micromanaging your life, your partner & your body, and start living from self-trust instead of control.
Timestamps:
03:15 Criticism & projection - how this shaped your body image, relationship with food & control patterns
06:25 Emotions as manipulation - guilt, walking on eggshells & why you now read everything as a threat
13:10 How your mother shaped your relationship with men, intimacy & feminine energy
16:30 Creating a new adult relationship with your mother - grief, boundaries & breaking old dynamics
21:00 Why mothering & nagging your man kills attraction - control, libido, cortisol & letting him rise (or not)

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This episode covers: mother wound, body image, relationship with food, control patterns, people pleasing, emotional regulation, intimacy issues, feminine energy, relationship dynamics, nervous system conditioning

If your success still feels flat, you can’t switch off, you have low libido & your relationships never quite feel secure - this is the ~Father wound.
In this episode, we break down how high-achieving women become wired to perform for love - tying their worth to achievement, struggling to rest & ending up in relationships where they feel like they have to prove themselves.
You’re not just driven for success, you were conditioned to feel safe through control, performing & achieving - blocking your feminine energy & keeping you stuck in cycles of burnout. 
This episode will help you understand the pattern, how it’s impacting your nervous system, relationships & self-worth - and what actually needs to shift to break the burnout cycle & rebuild your identity from real self-worth.
Timestamps:
05:22 Breathing exercise
08:16 How the masculine shapes your low self-worth
17:20 How he impacted your emotional foundation & relationships
26:00 You were trained to abandon yourself 
32:00 Your value is not conditional - break the burn out cycle
35:00 How to take your life back & heal 

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This episode covers: father wound, daddy issues, high-achieving women, burnout, overworking, nervous system regulation, self-worth, relationship patterns & emotional regulation.

After a year off the pod, this is a real-life update from being in Dubai during missile attacks - and what it revealed about fear, control & resilience.

When threat becomes real, your nervous system doesn’t care about what you know - it shows you what you’re built for.

We get into external vs internal regulation, collective fear, media influence & why you don’t have to shrink your life - even in uncertainty.
Timestamps:
05:19 Life under attack in Dubai 
12:30 Scanning for threats to feel in control 
18:16 Collective fear & traumatic experiences 
24:32 Nervous system foundation & your identity 
33:00 Biggest lesson from war so far 
36:40 How you can work with me 

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This episode covers: nervous system regulation, fear & control, trauma response, resilience, external vs internal regulation, collective fear, media influence, anxiety, safety in uncertainty & emotional regulation.